Discover the variety of EHRI’s Online Courses, which offer innovative approaches to the historiography of the Holocaust and adjacent research fields and are aimed at diverse user groups, ranging from scholars, educators, people active in Holocaust commemoration, archivists, and many more. Each EHRI Online Course is free of charge.  

EHRI Online Courses in Holocaust Studies  

This resource provides teachers, lecturers and students with source material and background information in order to give them an overview on recent trends in historiography. Since it is not possible to cover all the manifold topics encompassed by modern historical Holocaust research, EHRI has decided to develop a course that teaches by using selected representative examples: five overarching topics have been developed for the online course. Each of these topics is used to focus on a critical analysis of sources within the context of the current state and methods of Holocaust research. 

EHRI Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) “The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources”  

This video course, offered on the Coursera platform, explores diaries, photographs, official Nazi documents, postwar survivor testimonies and much more – all together with leading scholars in the field. Participants will become acquainted with original documents and gain hands-on experience in using them while learning about their importance, and the unique perspectives they provide into the history of the Holocaust. The course is aimed at anyone with a general interest in Holocaust Studies.

EHRI Online Course “Aligning Holocaust data with Open Research and FAIR data principles”  

This course, offered on the platform OpenPlato, is designed to provide Collection Holding Institutes that provide access to Holocaust data and researchers with an introduction to research data management, data management plans, FAIR data and Open Research. It provides an overview of these topics, and includes discussion on how it applies to Holocaust research.